Usually from Latin.
cetacean
cretaceous
crustacean
curvaceous
diatomaceous
herbaceous
licorice
liquorice
ocean
roseaceous
sebaceous
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What is the longest word that includes ce which makes a sh sound.
My guess would be ‘diatomaceous’, but you might find a longer word with this sound-spelling relationship here: https://www.morewords.com/contains-by-length/ce.
How about grocery / groceries?
Do you say a /sh/sound in ‘grocer’? I don’t, I say a /s/, and the Macquarie Dictionary agrees that’s the Australian English pronunciation. Even if you did say /sh/ for the letter ‘c’, the ‘e’ is representing a vowel, it’s not part of a ‘ce’ grapheme.